Dramma lesson - plan

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LESSON PLAN

Language level: pre-intermediate
Group description: a group of 15 students at the age of 15 years from Junior High School

TOPIC: In a restaurant.

OBJECTIVES:
· SPEAKING: practising dialogues “ Can I help you, sir?”; ordering meals in a restaurant; pracising falling and raising intonation.
· VOCABULARY: food; meals; dishes; adjectives describing food (tasty, delicious,etc.)
· GRAMMAR: practising questions and short answers.
· COMMUNICATION SKILLS: practising polite requests; behaviuor in a restaurant; interacting with a partner; describing objects.

PREPERATION:
· Photocopying the sketch “ Can I help you, sir?” ( “Fastlane – Teacher’s resource book 2 )-Prentice Hall Europe, 1998.
· Slips of paper with names of different food items, adjectives describing people’s mood
· A little box
· Students have to bring realia to the classroom- menus, trays, etc.

DESCRIPTION OF THE LESSON
Time of the lesson: 45 minutes

INTRODUCTION
STUDENTS SIT IN A CIRCLE

1. Each student draws a slip of paper with a food item on it from the box.

2. The students look at their slips and mime whether they like it or not. The rest have to think of an appropriate adjective ( e.g. delicious, tasty, horrible, disgusting, etc.)

CATEGORISING AND MIMING FOOD ITEMS

3. When all the students have their slips of paper with the food items on them they divide the words into four groups according to the food category.
In each corner of the classroom there are notes saying what category this corner is for.( categories: fruit, vegetables, meat, drinks)

4. The students mime their item, the rest of the class have to guess what food item is presented. They have to ask questions ( according to the category ) in order to guess it.( e,.g. Are you an orange?, Are you butter?, etc.)

5. The students come back to their seats in the circle. The teacher asks questions: Have you ever been to a restaurant?, What did you eat?, Was the waiter nice or rude?, etc,

PREPARING AND ACTING OUT THE SKETCHES.

6. The students are divided into pairs. They get a copy of the sketch “ Can I help you,sir?”.
They also draw a piece of paper with adjectives describing the waiter’s and the customer’s mood or character. ( e.g. waiter-rude,customer- shy; waiter-polite, customer- rude; waiter- shy, customer- angry; etc.).

7. The students prepare their sketches , they also use previously brought realia.

8. Each pair of students act out their sketches, the others have to guess the mood of both characters.